BLACKS CONSIDER IT THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO LOOT STORES. THIS HAS BEEN PERPETRATED BY THE BLACK LIVES MATTER HOAX.
The Surge of Shoplifting: Why Police Fail to Take Action | Evette Ingram
8. CRIME: Because of the Democrat rule in blue cities, crime is not being prosecuted in the name of some weird kind of reparations. What the Democrats don't get is that they hurt their own innocent population by allowing criminals a get-out-jail-free card, and by not prosecuting at all. Their racist policies hurt the very people they claim to want to help. Why are they doing this? To deliberately create chaos in the execution of anti-white racism. The one solution to the rising crime rate, the prosecution and incarceration of criminals, is the one thing blue cities under Democrat rule will not do. Mayor Lightfoot makes weird and demonic home videos of herself dancing around in what appears to be a drugged stupor. Rather than be a responsible mayor, she has totally ignored the death-by-violence rate in Chicago. This is another very clear example of Democrats doing what they do best; destroying things.
VIDEO: Florida Mother Was Allegedly Shoplifting When Car Caught Fire with Children Inside
A woman has been arrested after two young children were left in a car that caught fire while she was allegedly shoplifting in Oviedo, Florida, on May 26.
Twenty-four-year-old Alicia Moore parked outside the Oviedo Mall’s Dillard’s store, leaving the children “who could not care for themselves” seated inside, according to law enforcement, Fox 35 reported Friday.
The woman entered the building accompanied by an unidentified man and allegedly shoplifted several items.
“They were watched by security for approximately one hour,” the Oviedo Police said, according to WESH.
However, when the woman neared the exit she noticed her car was on fire. Video footage shows the white car with flames coming out of its back windows.
Authorities said the suspect dropped the items she was allegedly carrying and ran out of the building. Citizens who saw what was happening rushed over and helped save the two children.
Once they were rescued, the children were transported to a hospital for treatment. One of the young victims suffered first-degree burns on the face and ears.
“A first-degree burn, also called a superficial burn, only affects the epidermis, or outer layer of skin. The burn site appears red, painful, dry, and absent of blisters. Scarring is rare or minimal. The most common type of first-degree burn is mild sunburn,” per the Boston Children’s Hospital website.
The car was totaled due to the blaze; however, what caused it has not yet been made clear, the New York Post reported Friday.
Police arrested Moore on Wednesday and she is now charged with aggravated child neglect and arson, along with petty theft and battery charges.
The outlet also cited jail records that show the woman remains in the Seminole County Jail on a bond of $48,000.
Fox 35 shared the 911 calls Friday regarding the incident, noting that when the woman accompanied the children to the hospital, law enforcement learned she had warrants for additional alleged crimes:
“She’s being charged with the arson because she did leave the kids alone in the car with some sort of lighter, matches — I don’t know what it was that set the car on fire. But the children are her responsibilities,” City of Oviedo Communications Manager Lisa McDonald explained.
WATCH: Three Masked Thieves Rob Lululemon Store in Georgia
Lululemon terminated two employees — including an assistant manager — after the pair called 911 and video recorded three masked thieves stealing merchandise inside a store in Georgia.
The incident occurred at a store in Forum Shops in Peachtree Corners, Georgia. The thieves reportedly stole thousands of dollars of merchandise, and employee Rachel Rogers said she has witnessed thieves steal five to six times in the last eight months, WSB-TV reported.
Footage shot by Rogers showed the men grabbing bundles of clothing as assistant manager Jennifer Ferguson is seen telling the men to leave.
“No, no, no, you can march back out,” Ferguson said.
One of the thieves stood at the door and stared at the camera before making a break to steal more clothing.
Rogers exited the store to videotape the men entering their car. Neither woman is shown physically intervening with the thieves. The women filed a police report, and the Gwinnett Police Department arrested and charged the men with multiple felonies the next day after they struck another store.
Two weeks later the women were let go from the company for breaking employee handbook policy of not intervening with a burglary.
The Lululemon handbook has a “zero-tolerance policy for chasing or physically engaging with the thief,” the New York Post reported.
“Clear a pathway,” Rogers told WSB-TV. “At least this is what is posted, is a clear pathway, and don’t interact, let them take what they want. Let them take what they have and do not make contact with them at all.”
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Yonkers Police Department via StoryfulFerguson’s husband, Jason Ferguson praised his wife for her bravery on a Facebook post:
I am more than proud to announce that my wife went into ‘fight’ mode. She protected herself and the other employees and the store by yelling at them to get out. She defended her space and her people. They tried to video the getaway car to get the license plate. And then, they for the first time after any of these incidents, called the police to report it.
When the officers arrived to take statements, they were concerned as to why the store had never called the police before, according to Ferguson’s Facebook post.
Breitbart reported early this month that two Big Lots employees in Bakersfield, California, were fired after following a thief back to his car.
Chicago Thugs w/Semiautomatic Weapons Rob 10 in 30 Mins
In 2021, retail theft cost the industry $94.5 billion.
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Los Angeles Police DepartmentNew York City has a shoplifting problem, but kiosks aren’t going to stop it
Like all Democrat-run cities that turned against police in 2020, New York City has a crime problem, including an explosive uptick in shoplifting. Fortunately for New York City store owners, Mayor Eric Adams has a plan. The problem is that, as with all lefty plans, it will cost money and almost certainly be completely useless.
Ever since the George Floyd riots caused leftist-managed cities to defund their police, all sorts of crimes have increased. In New York City, the crime that’s really taken off is shoplifting.
In the first eight months of 2021, shoplifting in New York increased by 30% over rates in 2020. Of course, one could argue that slowly ending the lockdown was what made the difference. However, that wouldn’t explain what happened in 2022. In that year, shoplifting went up by another 45% over rates in 2021, with an even better marker being the fact that it was 275% higher than a decade or so earlier.
Shoplifting may be a non-violent crime, but it has a disastrous effect on people in the community because stores, including big box stores, respond to theft in two different ways: First, they raise their prices; then when that proves ineffective, they pick up their marbles and go home by shutting down stores. In San Francisco, for example, Walgreens closed five stores due to shoplifting. Target, meanwhile, predicts that retail crime will cost it as much as $1.3 billion:
Crime-battered retail giant Target said it expects to suffer as much as a $1.3 billion hit to its bottom line because of “theft and organized crime,” according to the company’s first-quarter earnings report released Wednesday.
The Minneapolis-based chain said its profit will be squeezed by “$500 million more than what we saw last year” – when the company lost as much as $800 million from “inventory shrink.”
Considering that Target voiced its full-throated support for BLM and dug deep in its pocket to support the communist organization, one can’t help but notice an “actions have consequences” scenario at work. That’s a shame because Target used to be a very nice place. Now, though, aside from shoplifting, lots of people (me included) are fed up with its Pride shenanigans, which it’s now aimed at children. But I digress…
New York mayor Eric Adams seems to have been feeling the heat from merchants in New York City, so his office has announced a “crackdown on shoplifting plan.” As always, though, when the government steps in to help, the devil is in the details:
And yes, that screen shot is real, not a Photoshop. According to Fox 5’s full report,
The new crackdown includes giving first-time offenders intervention programs instead of prosecution, de-escalation training for retail employees, establishing neighborhood retail watch groups to share information about a theft in real-time with one another and the police, and installing kiosks in stores to connect would-be thieves with social service programs.
One of the things that everyone has noticed about shoplifters is that they’re not starved, Dickensian-style waifs stealing a loaf of bread to survive. Instead, they’re organized gangs that go in and steal merchandise that has a good retail value on the street:
Or if they’re eating what they steal, it’s party time, not starvation time:
What’s happening is organized crime:
In other words, little police kiosks promising social services (which will augment all the posters about social services in the crime-ridden NY subway) are not going to change things. Nor will friendly little “intervention programs” affect what is hardcore criminal activity. The NYC plan is taking a flyswatter to an out-of-control wild boar.
I would say that the people of NYC deserve better but, actually, they don’t. This is what they voted for. It’s not just that Adams garnered 80.4% of the vote in Manhattan, 76% in the Bronx, 70.8% in Brooklyn, and 59.8% in Queens, with only Staten Island showing the good sense to vote for Curtis Sliwa (66.4% of the votes). It’s also that a total of only 1,125,000 turned out to vote, out of a city with a population that’s close to 9,000,000.
The only ones I feel for are the conservatives (some of whom I count among my good friends) who took the time and made the effort to vote. As to those people, I’ve heard that Florida’s a nice place, as are most of the southern states.
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Ringleaders of Atlanta Bail Fund Booked on Money Laundering Charges
The ringleaders of a nonprofit bail fund allegedly involved in a domestic terrorist attack against an Atlanta police training center were arrested Wednesday on charges of money laundering and charity fraud.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced Wednesday it found evidence linking the three directors of the Network for Strong Communities to the alleged financial crimes. The charity received a $3.6 million windfall during the George Floyd riots of 2020 and operates the Atlanta Solidarity Fund, the largest bail fund in the Atlanta metropolitan area. The charges stemmed from an ongoing investigation into an attack by masked assailants in January against the future site of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, a police academy scheduled to open in late 2023.
The charges come as other prominent social justice groups that rose to prominence during the nationwide unrest during the summer of 2020 unravel amid allegations of financial malfeasance. Black Lives Matter, which raised $90 million following Floyd’s death, reported last week that its revenues plummeted 88 percent in its 2022 fiscal year as it doled out lucrative contracts to the friends and family of its co-founder, Patrisse Cullors. And the Minnesota Freedom Fund, a bail fund championed by Vice President Kamala Harris that used its $41.7 million windfall to bail a host of violent offenders out of jail, suffered a 98 percent drop in contributions in 2021.
The Atlanta Solidarity Fund is part of a coalition of groups "resisting" the planned police training center, which is also known as "Cop City." The fund rushed in March to help release 23 suspects from jail that were charged with domestic terrorism for their alleged involvement in a "coordinated attack" against the site of Cop City that left one assailant dead.
"Today’s arrests are about the violence that occurred at the site of the future Atlanta Public Safety Training Center and elsewhere," Georgia attorney general Chris Carr said in a statement. "As we have said before, we will not rest until we have held accountable every person who has funded, organized, or participated in this violence and intimidation."
The Atlanta Solidarity Fund’s three directors, Marlon Kautz, Savannah Patterson, and Adele MacLean, will be booked into a local jail and have a bond hearing scheduled "soon," the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Wednesday. Further details on the financial allegations are unknown at this time. The Network for Strong Communities did not return a request for comment.
The "Stop Cop City" movement said it will hold a protest outside the DeKalb County Jail Wednesday evening to demand the release of Kautz, Patterson, and MacLean.
Chicago Mayor’s Neighbor Allegedly Beat a Woman to Death with a Bat
A Chicago daycare worker was charged with first degree murder after allegedly beating a woman with a baseball bat and dumping her body in the alley behind his home.
The medical examiner found that the victim sustained over 100 injuries to her face, head, and scalp, CWB reported. During the suspect, Ariel Smith’s, bail hearing on Tuesday, Assistant State’s Attorney Anne McCord said the medical examiner had “never seen so many injuries on someone’s body.”
Smith is being held without bail.
Smith, 64, and the 41-year-old victim were previously acquainted and ran into each other on Friday, May 26, at 5:00 a.m at a Citgo gas station. The pair took a CTA bus to Smith’s home in the 5700 block of West Superior — right across the street from Mayor Brandon Johnson’s home.
The pair smoked crack, and the victim performed a sex act on Smith, according to McCord. The interaction allegedly turned violent when Smith accused the victim of stealing money from him and would not let her leave until she returned the money. He is accused of then beating her with a baseball bat, and stabbing her with a broken piece of pottery.
Smith allegedly wrapped the victim’s body in a comforter and dragged her out to the alley. Surveillance footage seems to show Smith trying to dump the body in the dumpster.
Neighbors discovered the body after returning from a pizza pickup.
Authorities secured a search warrant and allegedly found a bloody bat and a bloody shard of pottery. Police officers said Smith was covered with dried blood when he answered the door, and had an injured hand. He told the officers he injured it in a lawnmower accident.
Smith has no criminal background. He earned a degree in childhood development and worked at the same daycare for five years.
There have been 226 homicide victims in Chicago so far this year, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. A quarter of them were killed in May alone.
Over Memorial Day weekend, eleven people were fatally shot.
According to Mayor Johnson these deaths are due to poverty.
“Poverty didn’t go away over the weekend,” Johnson told ABC News. “We understand that when communities have been disinvested in and traumatized, that you’re seeing the manifestation of that trauma.”
Reject the Race Hustlers
The Left figured out that racial hatred gives it a huge advantage.
If you want to exponentially increase racism, you could convene a council of renown idiots, morons, and Klan members and come up with a plan, or you could just do what the Democrats are doing right now. The left has decided that racial hatred gives them an advantage, and we are seeing the results. These are not going to be nice results. This is going to increase interracial strife. This is going to increase racial hate, and then the leftists are going to complain about what they’ve done and blame everyone else. But we don’t have to play their game. We can tell the race pimps to pound sand.
We will have to do that a lot. You have the noxious Cori Bush demanding $14 trillion in “reparations” from people who never owned slaves to people who never were slaves. You have informal quota systems in jobs and schools. You have ninnies insisting on segregation. And you have cultural forces joining in a chorus of hatred for people of pallor. But one of America’s greatest achievements was making its majority ethnic group not consider itself an ethnic group at all, meaning that our society was open to advancement by everyone. And these communists are intent on tossing that into the trash without thinking of the consequences of balkanizing our populations. And as someone who served in the Balkans, I can state that we need to not do that.
The latest idiocy is the recent Smollettesque fake race hate crisis involving that pregnant nurse in New York accused of stealing a bike that she paid for from five black young men because a lot of women about to give birth steal from a half-dozen guys. The vid went viral with the usual suspects pronouncing her Bull Connor with a fetus, but the objective evidence is in and she didn’t steal anything. And this time the fraud has backfired. Nobody’s buying it, and even better, she’s got aggressive lawyers out to make the scumbags pay. A bunch of people are going to get sued by her. Good. It’s about time there be some pushback on this kind of race-baiting crap.
We don’t need it, and we don’t want it. We are normal people, and normal people have nothing to gain for making their country a place where people hate each other because of the color of their skin. But make no mistake – there are leftist politicians and cultural parasites who have a lot to gain from doing just that. Sure, it is short-sighted and stupid and it is destroying the greatest experiment in and racial harmony in human history, but they don’t care because they think they’re going to get a slight short-term advantage ginning up these lies.
But what they’re likely to get if we don’t put a stop to it is massively increased racial antipathy, and a country where people generally dislike each other on the basis of race. That’s not what normal people want. You know, I’m old enough to remember when people of all races generally got along. And I remember when that started changing.
If you ask these idiots, they’ll tell you that the situation in America is the worst it’s ever been. I mean, there’s no Democrat-led slavery or Democrat-led Jim Crow anymore, but you know racism is worse even though you can’t see it or touch it or feel it. But it’s there, invisible and structural, which is convenient because invisible and structural racism cannot be disproven by objective evidence. But this kind of nonsense is coming to the end of its shelf life. People are sick of being accused of something that’s simply not true solely because of the color of their skin – or irrespective of it, since you need not be white to embody “white supremacy.” You only need to anger the left.
And people are particularly tired of the new definition of racism. Racism is when you negatively discriminate against people on the basis of race. The left found that inconvenient, since they love to negatively discriminate against people on the basis of race, so they changed the definition to racism being anything that they don’t like. To them, it’s perfectly OK if you don’t like a particular race, as long as that race is a convenient target within their narrative du jour.
But I didn’t vote for that definitional change. I know you didn’t vote for it either. We don’t have to accept it. A bunch of faculty lounge losers decided it and somehow it spread into our society like a cancer. And we’re not doing it. It’s not happening. It’s over.
Here’s how you win this fight. You don’t play. When someone talks about “institutional racism,” laugh at them. When somebody tells you that they demand equity, tell them “No.” Equality, sure, but garbage redistribution scams like “equity?” Pffft.
And when somebody tells you that it’s OK to hate somebody else because of the color of their skin, reject that too. Don’t do it. Don’t accept it. Instead, hold everyone to the highest standards, the same standards. Refuse to change expectations based on the homeland of someone’s great-great-grandpa. The way to end actual racism is to end it. It is not to increase it or enhance it or explain it or justify it or attempt to redefine it into something politically useful for the communists. Refuse to participate in their racial psychodramas. The conservative position must be the position it has always been. We don’t care where your grandfather came from. We only care what you do. It’s right, it’s smart, and that’s the way it’s going to be because normal people understand the essential unfairness of a racial spoils state. We’re not going to do it. We’re not going to participate, and we don’t care what they call us. We don’t care what they say. We don’t care about their lies. It’s over. We’re done with them. And soon today’s race haters will be history just like their Jim Crow antecedents.
Chicago Sent 'Peacekeepers' To Stop Memorial Day Weekend Violence. It Didn't Go Well.
Police charged man wearing 'Peacekeepers' vest with violent attack during deadly weekend
Chicago's left-wing leaders prepared for the Memorial Day weekend's expected uptick in violence by deploying non-police "peacekeepers." The city went on to see its deadliest weekend in almost a decade—with one attack possibly being perpetrated by a "peacekeeper."
At least 11 people died in shootings across Chicago, while at least 46 others, including 2 toddlers, were injured. The death toll is the highest since 2015, the Chicago Sun-Times reported, with one murder occurring steps away from soft-on-crime Mayor Brandon Johnson's (D.) doorstep.
The news comes days after Johnson and Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker (D.) announced the creation of the Citywide Crisis Prevention and Response Unit, which deploys "peacekeepers" to "provide essential assistance in deescalation, conflict resolution, and crisis support across Chicago." Democratic politicians across the country, including far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), have prompted similar programs.
The Chicago program costs Illinois taxpayers $700,000, the Center Square reported.
While "peacekeepers" were tasked with quelling violence, at least one might have been more interested in committing crime than preventing it. According to prosecutors, Oscar Montes, 31, was one of several people who "pulled a man from a car and punched and kicked him on the ground," the Sun-Times reported. When police arrived at the scene, Montes was "trying to take off a neon vest that read 'peacekeepers.'"
The Sun-Times was unable to confirm whether Montes, who spent 12 years in prison on a firearm charge, was working for a peacekeeping agency or organization.
Johnson ran on a platform that touted having "health professionals, not police, respond to crisis calls." The mayor, a longtime union organizer, supported the Defund the Police movement in 2020, though during last year's election he backtracked on his support.
Update 1:40 p.m.: This piece has been corrected to say that this Memorial Day weekend was the deadliest in "almost a decade." It originally said "more than a decade."
A man who lives across the street from Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson was held without bail Tuesday after prosecutors accused him of beating a woman to death with a baseball bat inside his home and dumping her body in the alley.
HOW ABOUT REPARATIONS FOR VICTIMS OF BLACK CRIME???
When a degreed childcare worker/amateur musician is alleged to have smoked crack and engaged in the behavior described, it looks like a society spinning out of control, with widespread social rot.
Condolences to those who knew or loved the victim and hopes that the justice system functions smoothly and fairly for the suspect.
Crime hits home for Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: Brutal murder across the street from his house
It’s no secret that crime is out of control in Chicago, with murder at the top of the list. But when a gruesome murder takes place across the street, it’s hard not to experience a shiver of dread or worse, even for those who see the police as a foe. Chicago’s newly elected Mayor Brandon Johnson, who ditched his previous “defund the police” rhetoric while running for office, just saw his very nice-looking, yet crime-ridden block on the southside of Chicago host a horrifyingly brutal crime at the hands of an alleged suspect with a spotless criminal record.
CWBChicago, the go-to source for crime news in the Windy City, has the details:
A man who lives across the street from Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson was held without bail Tuesday after prosecutors accused him of beating a woman to death with a baseball bat inside his home and dumping her body in the alley.
Arnel Smith, 64, is charged with first-degree murder and concealing a homicidal death.
A medical examiner who handled the 41-year-old victim’s case said they had “never seen so many injuries on someone’s body,” Assistant State’s Attorney Anne McCord said during Smith’s bail hearing.
As this photo composite shows, it would be an easy baseball throw from the Mayor’s house to the crime scene:
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There is no information on whether or not the mayor knows his neighbor, nor is there any information about a police presence guarding the mayor’s house. His predecessor Lori Lightfoot was heavily criticized for a labor-intensive 24-hour police presence on her block. Such a prominent display might have given the alleged perp second thoughts about carrying out an especially brutal crime, and attempting to hide it so crassly.
Smith met the woman once about a year ago, then happened to cross paths with her again at a Citgo gas station around 5 a.m. on Friday.
The two rode a CTA bus back to Smith’s home in the 5700 block of West Superior. There, they smoked crack and the woman performed a sex act, according to McCord.
Afterward, said McCord, Smith accused the woman of stealing money and would not let her leave until she paid him what he believed he was owed.
The altercation turned violent.
Smith beat the woman with a baseball bat and stabbed her with broken pottery until she died, McCord alleged.
After the murder, Smith allegedly smoked some more crack, wrapped the woman’s body in a comforter, and dragged her to an alley. Surveillance video showed him trying to place the body into a dumpster, but he was “physically unable” to complete the task, so he left her on the ground, McCord said.
One thing that sets this crime apart, other than the brutality, is that the suspect Smith would have appeared as a model citizen based on what was visible to police and others:
Smith has no criminal background and has been employed his entire life after earning a degree in childhood development, his lawyer said. He has worked for a child daycare center for the past five years. In his spare time, the lawyer said, he plays and sings in a blues and jazz band.
When a degreed childcare worker/amateur musician is alleged to have smoked crack and engaged in the behavior described, it looks like a society spinning out of control, with widespread social rot.
Condolences to those who knew or loved the victim and hopes that the justice system functions smoothly and fairly for the suspect.
CRIME IN AMERICA IS BLACK!
Police: Two 2-Year-Olds Shot Hours Apart in Chicago
Two 2-year-olds were wounded in separate shootings that occurred just hours apart in Chicago on Sunday evening, ABC 7/Chicago Sun-Times reported.
The Chicago Police Department confirmed that a 2-year-old girl found a gun, accidentally discharged it, and hit herself in the right hand after 6 p.m. in the 1500-block of West Jonquil Terrace in Rogers Park.
Police said the little girl was subsequently taken to Francis Hospital in Evanston and is in good condition, according to the report.
The second shooting occurred around 10:30 p.m. in the 7900-block of South Hermitage Avenue in Gresham, police said. A two-year-old boy “was playing in a bedroom with a known male… when a gun was discharged,” the report states.
“He was struck in the hand and was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was in fair condition,” according to the report, which cited police. “Benjamin Smith, 24, has been charged with child endangerment in connection with the Hermitage incident.”
Overall, 43 people were shot in Chicago, nine of them fatally, Friday into Monday morning during Brandon Johnson’s (D) first Memorial Day weekend as mayor, Breitbart News’ AWR Hawkins reported.
The Sun-Times homicide database shows 226 people were killed in Chicago January 1, 2023, through May 28, 2023.
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43 Shot Friday into Monday Morning in Mayor Johnson’s Chicago
Forty-three people were shot in Chicago, nine of them fatally, Friday into Monday morning during Brandon Johnson’s (D) first Memorial Day weekend as mayor.
Breitbart News reported at least 12 people were shot, three fatally, Friday night into Saturday morning alone in Chicago.
By Saturday night at 8:19 p.m., the number of shooting victims had reached at least 21, with one additional fatality, according to ABC 7/Chicago Sun-Times.
On Monday morning, ABC 7/Chicago Sun-Times noted that the number of shooting victims had reached 43, with the total number of shooting fatalities climbing to nine.
One of the additional shooting fatalities was a 37-year-old man who was shot while standing on a sidewalk “in the 2300-block of West 18th Street” around 3:00 a.m. Saturday.
He was transported to a hospital and pronounced dead.
A 69-year-old was shot and killed Sunday during a drive-by shooting that also left two men–a 55-year-old and a 34-year-old–wounded.
The Sun-Times homicide database shows 223 people were killed in Chicago January 1, 2023, through May 28, 2023.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010. and he holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.
DeSantis: In Chicago, ‘You're More Likely to Get Shot’ than Get Good Education – Study Finds Chances Are Actually 1 in 15
Chicago residents have a better chance of being shot than they do of getting a good education, Republican presidential hopeful Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday.
“You think of a place like Chicago, these kids – you're more likely to get shot than to get a world-class education in some of these places,” DeSantis said, while addressing a homeschool convention in Orlando.
DeSantis made the comment while describing the harm done in liberal-run cities that delayed reopening schools after the COVID threat had waned.
“Nobody wants to admit that they wanted to lock kids out of school for a year and a half because you've seen the results,” DeSantis said, noting how school attendance never recovered in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York:
“From 2020 to 2022, people have just totally vanished from some of these urban school districts across the country.
“Chicago – 25,000 fewer students than in 2020; Los Angeles – 43,000 fewer students than in 2020; New York – 50,000 fewer students than in 2020. In Florida, our school enrollment is up and our homeschool numbers are up.
“You think of a place like Chicago, these kids – you're more likely to get shot than to get a world-class education in some of these places.”
The average Chicago shooting victim is high-school age (17) at the time of being shot, according to the results of a recent study of more than twenty-four hundred Chicagoans, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The study also finds that 6.46% (1 in 15) of Chicagoans have been shot by their 40th birthday. What’s more, half (50.0%) have witnessed a shooting by that age. Males (11.40% or 1 in 8.8) are five times more likely than female respondents (2.28% or 1 in 43.8) to be shot by age 40.
DeSantis also used his speech to dispel the false claims made by liberals and media regarding the parental-rights bill he signed.
Parental rights are about transparency, not censorship or discrimination, he explained:
“Part of parents’ rights means you have a right as a parent to curriculum transparency, you have a right to know what is being taught in your kid’s school.
“And, if there are materials that are inappropriate, because of age or they violate Florida standards, you have the right to blow the whistle on that now.”
VIDEO: Bus Driver Fired After Shooting Alleged Armed Attacker
A North Carolina bus driver in the Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) was fired after surveillance video showed him shoot an alleged armed attacker on the bus.
The incident occurred May 18, but surveillance video was just released.
ABC 7 reported that a 22-year-old passenger, Omarri Tobias, allegedly pulled a gun after driver, David Fullard, refused to let him off the bus between stops.
ABC News noted that Tobias allegedly said, “I dare you. I dare you to touch me. I’m going to pop your a–.” Tobias then allegedly pulled a gun and walked toward Fullard.
Fullard then pulled his own gun and opened fire.
Tobias fired too, leaving Fullard with a gunshot wound to his arm. Tobias was shot in the abdomen.
Fullard stopped the bus and continued to fire at Tobias as he crawled toward the rear of the bus.
CATS fired Fullard over the incident, claiming he did not properly attempt to deescalate the situation. CATS also noted Fullard was barred from bringing a gun to work.
WSOC pointed out that Fullard’s attorney indicated his client had a gun because he did not feel safe on the job.
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Renate Incardone via Storyful, Alex Lobingier via Storyful, @kirubelye via Storyful, Candice Jackson via StoryfulAWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010. and he holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.
8. CRIME: Because of the Democrat rule in blue cities, crime is not being prosecuted in the name of some weird kind of reparations. What the Democrats don't get is that they hurt their own innocent population by allowing criminals a get-out-jail-free card, and by not prosecuting at all. Their racist policies hurt the very people they claim to want to help. Why are they doing this? To deliberately create chaos in the execution of anti-white racism. The one solution to the rising crime rate, the prosecution and incarceration of criminals, is the one thing blue cities under Democrat rule will not do. Mayor Lightfoot makes weird and demonic home videos of herself dancing around in what appears to be a drugged stupor. Rather than be a responsible mayor, she has totally ignored the death-by-violence rate in Chicago. This is another very clear example of Democrats doing what they do best; destroying things.
At Least 21 Shot Friday into Saturday Night Across Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Chicago
At least 21 people were shot, four of them fatally, Friday into Saturday night across Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago.
Breitbart News reported at least 12 people were shot, three fatally, Friday night into Saturday morning alone in Chicago.
By Saturday night at 8:19 p.m. the total number of shooting victims had reached at least 21, with one additional fatality, according to ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times.
The additional shooting fatality occurred at 11:15 a.m. “in the 1100 block of North Ridgeway Avenue,” where a man approximately 25-years-old was shot multiple times. He was transported to a hospital, where he died.
The 21 shooting victims for Friday into Saturday night is already nearly as many shooting victims as Johnson witnessed during May 19-21, 2023, which was his first weekend as Mayor. Breitbart News noted that 23 people were shot that weekend.
Illinois has a red flag law, a 72-hour-waiting period on gun purchases, a Firearm Owners Identification (FOID) card requirement, and an “assault weapons” and “high capacity” magazine ban, among other gun controls.
Cook County, the county seat of which is Chicago, has an “assault weapons” ban as well.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010. and he holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.
DeSantis: In Chicago, ‘You're More Likely to Get Shot’ than Get Good Education – Study Finds Chances Are Actually 1 in 15
Chicago residents have a better chance of being shot than they do of getting a good education, Republican presidential hopeful Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday.
“You think of a place like Chicago, these kids – you're more likely to get shot than to get a world-class education in some of these places,” DeSantis said, while addressing a homeschool convention in Orlando.
DeSantis made the comment while describing the harm done in liberal-run cities that delayed reopening schools after the COVID threat had waned.
“Nobody wants to admit that they wanted to lock kids out of school for a year and a half because you've seen the results,” DeSantis said, noting how school attendance never recovered in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York:
“From 2020 to 2022, people have just totally vanished from some of these urban school districts across the country.
“Chicago – 25,000 fewer students than in 2020; Los Angeles – 43,000 fewer students than in 2020; New York – 50,000 fewer students than in 2020. In Florida, our school enrollment is up and our homeschool numbers are up.
“You think of a place like Chicago, these kids – you're more likely to get shot than to get a world-class education in some of these places.”
The average Chicago shooting victim is high-school age (17) at the time of being shot, according to the results of a recent study of more than twenty-four hundred Chicagoans, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The study also finds that 6.46% (1 in 15) of Chicagoans have been shot by their 40th birthday. What’s more, half (50.0%) have witnessed a shooting by that age. Males (11.40% or 1 in 8.8) are five times more likely than female respondents (2.28% or 1 in 43.8) to be shot by age 40.
DeSantis also used his speech to dispel the false claims made by liberals and media regarding the parental-rights bill he signed.
Parental rights are about transparency, not censorship or discrimination, he explained:
“Part of parents’ rights means you have a right as a parent to curriculum transparency, you have a right to know what is being taught in your kid’s school.
“And, if there are materials that are inappropriate, because of age or they violate Florida standards, you have the right to blow the whistle on that now.”
WE CAN LET THE DEMOCRAT PARTY DESTROY AMERICA OR WE CAN PUT THEM OUTF OR GOOD!
Two Killed, Eight Wounded Overnight as Shootings Rattle Democrat-Run Milwaukee
Seven shootings killed two people and wounded a further eight overnight in Democrat-run Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
CBS 58 reported the shootings began about 7:30 p.m. Saturday night and continued until just before 5 a.m.
The two shooting fatalities occurred in the incident shortly after midnight Sunday. The shooting occurred “near N. 37th St. and W. Townsend St.” and two men–a 43-year-old and a 47-year-old–died as a result.
Breitbart News reported Democrat-run Chicago witnessed at least 21 people shot Friday into Saturday night. Four of the gunshot victims succumbed to their wounds.
At least 12 were shot Friday night alone in Chicago, which was a violent start to Brandon Johnson’s first Memorial Weekend as Mayor.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010 and holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.
WATCH: ‘Tranq’ Drug Taking Heavy Toll in Philadelphia as Addictions Rise
The “tranq” drug is taking a costly toll in Philadelphia, and video footage posted Thursday shows those caught in its grip.
The Kensington area is apparently filled with people slumped over and passed out, the New York Post reported Saturday, citing video footage shared by TikTok user urbanvisuals2.0.
In the clip, individuals are being recorded standing or sitting motionless on the sidewalk that is scattered with debris:
The city has been grappling with a rise in addicts using the drug called Xylazine which is also referred to as “tranq.”
The Post described it as “a deadly sedative used to enhance the effects of heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl.”
In April, U.S. government officials deemed Xylazine an “emerging threat” and asked Congress for additional funds to push back against the drug connected to overdose deaths, according to AFP.
Meanwhile, authorities in Los Angeles have been warning citizens about the “zombie drug” that can eat a person’s flesh.
“Addicts who use it can reportedly experience side effects such as their skin and muscle rotting,” per Breitbart News.
Some “tranq” users are also having to undergo amputations, ABC 6 reported in September.
The outlet also noted that “officials say drug suppliers are lacing the fentanyl and heroin supply with the animal tranquilizer because it is cheap and easy to get.”
Now, Philadelphia’s health officials are lamenting the fact the city is suffering under the epidemic, admitting that Xylizine has hit the area “particularly hard” with more overdose deaths and “severe wounds that can lead to sepsis and amputation.”
For a long time, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner (D) has said incarceration should not be an option for drug addicts, the Inquirer reported in December 2019.
“Now he’s putting that philosophy into action. His office has quietly launched an interim version of an unprecedented ‘diversion’ program, in which prosecutors simply withdraw charges for those who show proof they’re in drug treatment,” the article said.
According to Krasner’s campaign website, “The office has stopped prosecuting nearly all simple drug possession cases.”
Meanwhile, the drug problem is still plaguing the area and Philadelphia sent out teams in March to help opioid and “tranq” addicts, according to NBC News:
A man in Kensington said he was searching for his daughter who is an opioid addict, noting she had been missing for several weeks.
“She had got about nine months clean and just took a turn for the worse. I just need to know that she’s still amongst the living. I just don’t know what else to do,” he said as tears fell from his eyes.
Ex-Drug Dealer Whose Sentence Was Commuted by Barack Obama Accused in Chicago-Area Shooting
An ex-drug dealer whose sentence was commuted by former President Barack Obama (D) is now accused of being involved in an Illinois shooting.
San Francisco Mayor Flees Speech on Crime as Violent Crime Is Committed
Ten minutes into a speech on combating soaring crime and drug use in San Francisco, Democratic mayor London Breed had to flee the event after someone threw a brick into the crowd.
Breed and several city officials held an outdoor meeting Tuesday in the city's United Nations Plaza, known for drug use and crime. A crowd of spectators screamed insults and booed the officials, and one of them threw a brick that almost hit a child, local outlet KRON4 reported. The city officials adjourned the meeting amid the disruption and continued it from inside the city hall building.
Breed argued during the meeting that treating the criminals in the city with delicate hands has failed. "I can go on, and on, about resources that have expanded considerably," she said, adding that these measures have not worked to deter open drug use and violent crime.
"Compassion is killing people," Breed said during the event. "We have to change what is happening on the streets. It’s too easy getting drugs, they are dying under our watch, we have to do better."
Breed's inability to hold an outdoor speech about the crime in her city highlights the deteriorating condition of San Francisco.
A recent study found few people in the Bay Area feel safe on public transportation. The Bay Area Council found in a poll that 78 percent of residents said they would ride more frequently if trains and buses were cleaner and safer. Just 17 percent of those asked said they feel safe on public transit.
Both Whole Foods and Nordstrom have shuttered businesses in the city over safety concerns. The latter's exit is costing the city 380 jobs. The downtown area of the city has lost half of its businesses since the start of the pandemic.
Even comedian Dave Chapelle is concerned about the state of San Francisco. He asked an audience there this month, "What the f— happened to this place?"
"Y’all ... need a Batman!" Chappelle reportedly told the crowd. The comedian recounted his experience at an Indian restaurant in the city, where he saw a homeless man defecate in front of the building as he entered.
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